News: Ticket Brokers are to Blame
In a post to UmpBump, speaking as a fan, Paul Moro says he was embarrassed by how empty Shea Stadium had been during the season’s final few games.
However, from what I can gather out of ticket brokers I have worked with in the past, Mets fans never owned those tickets in the first place.
Instead, brokers were buying up blocks and blocks of tickets all season in an effort to lock down a position in Citi Field.
If they were able to sell the Shea seats, great – if not, it wouldn’t matter since the idea was to essentially make a down-payment and be in good standing for the next stadium.
In other words, Mets fans never really had the chance to fill those seats at the end of the season, yet it hasn’t stopped people from mocking us for what is a perceived lack of interest.
